A gait-based paradigm to investigate central body representation in cervical dystonia patients.
O CrisafulliE RavizzottiS MezzarobbaC CosentinoG BonassiA BottaG AbbruzzeseR MarcheseL AvanzinoElisa PelosinPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2022)
CD patients showed dysfunctions in controlling dynamic body location during walking without visual afferences, while the dystonic side does not seem to be related to the lateral deviation of the trajectory. Our results would assume that a general proprioceptive impairment could lead to an improper body position awareness in patients with CD.